Lots of people across Western Montana saw a bright light streaking across the sky on Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service office in Missoula reports a sensor detected what appears to be a meteor at around 6:30 a.m. The meteor was first detected over southwest Alberta.

MISSOULA — Did you see it? Lots of people across Montana saw a bright light streaking across the sky on Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service office in Missoula reports a sensor detected what appears to be a meteor at around 6:30 a.m. The meteor was first detected over southwest Alberta.

The National Weather Service office in Missoula sent out a notice that a satellite that usually tracks lightning caught a view of the object hitting the atmosphere just north of the Montana/Canada border. "It appears the GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper ...

According to the National Weather Service in Missoula, reports of the fireball in the sky occurred just after 6:30 a.m. “It appears the GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper) GOES18 sensor picked up a meteorite signature around 1331 UTC (6:31 AM MST) this morning,